Dark Magician Deck #756679 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 13 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier and Magician of Dark Chaos - Black Chaos pressure from Light and Darkness Ritual, backed by Dark Magician and Dark Magician of Destruction (text-inferred, no recorded boards); Link and Fusion follow-up (Firewall-free Link pool, Selene, Accesscode Talker, Azamina Mu Rcielago) if the ritual line is blanked
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Dark Magical Curtain, Pot of Sloth, Mulcharmy or Griffoh for draws and bodies, then reach a Light and Darkness Ritual line (Light and Darkness Ritual, Mind Shuffle, Skull Archfiend) toward Black Chaos or Black Luster Soldier (Inferred from card text)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird and Nibiru as hand traps against the first Special Summon or activation, then convert the surviving board into a ritual or Link extension (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recurse Ritual Spells and monsters through Skull Archfiend of Chaos and Mind Shuffle, and rebuild draws with the Mulcharmy pair (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no side deck, so there is no post-side plan (Verified)

Why it scores here

This list is illegal in TCG as submitted: 13 copy-limit and banlist violations, including nine Forbidden cards, so it receives a capped, structural-only score and not a normal Final Contextual score. Structurally it has a real engine core: 19 copies of the archetype-named core (86% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand, Inferred), six hand traps and a Light and Darkness Ritual line that can reach strong bosses from text. The score is held down by engine fragmentation: exact-name purity is only 2.7%, with the list split across Light and Darkness Ritual, Dominus, Mulcharmy, Azamina and Charmer pieces, and no side deck. No recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-only inference. The score was built from the deck's system properties, not from averaging card scores, and popularity and archetype usage did not earn points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary with Toolbox secondary; secondary weights not blended, primary profile used as-is. Structural ≈ 49.3, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 48, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-8); Engine conflicts (-4). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*49.3 + 0.20*45 - 12 = 36.4, then capped at 35 under the Illegal rule (theoretical/structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.86 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ — (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Six hand traps and nine negation-text cards give layered interaction on paper
• Archetype core present at 19 copies (86% in a 5-card hand)
• Ritual boss ceiling (Black Chaos, Black Luster Soldier, Magician of Dark Chaos) with real ATK
• Draw and search density (Pot of Sloth, Mulcharmy pair, Dark Magical Curtain, Ragged Records)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: nine Forbidden cards plus four Limited/Semi-Limited copy-limit violations
• Engine fragmentation: 2.7% exact-name purity across several sub-archetypes
• No side deck
• No recorded boards, so ceiling and median are unmeasured
• Five Forbidden Extra Deck cards leave the Extra Deck thin in a legal build

Critical choke points

• Light and Darkness Ritual Spell is a single copy and the key to Black Chaos and Black Luster Soldier (Verified)
• Dark Magician and Dark Magician of Destruction carry the Magician identity; losing them removes the Ritual route (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal: 60 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side; 13 copy-limit and banlist violations; Nine Forbidden cards are run; the Semi-Limited and Limited copy counts are over; Exact-name archetype purity 2.7%; 86% chance of at least one archetype-core card in a 5-card hand
• Inferred: Ritual boss and Link follow-up lines are viable from card text; Hand-trap interaction density and going-second behaviour; Brick and conflict risk from the card mix; Draw and recovery potential from search and draw text
• Provisional: Meta and format fit (no dated metagame sample); Side-deck adaptability (no side deck)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Illegal list: no legal-build score is available until the copy and banlist violations are fixed no side deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed